A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERTEnvy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
More George Herbert Quotes
-
-
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERT -
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Better never begin than never make an end.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT -
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
GEORGE HERBERT -
When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERT -
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
GEORGE HERBERT -
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
GEORGE HERBERT